Quotes of: Burning-desire Keyword

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

Undoing Gender

A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir

Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he's been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would keep forever in some small part of his soul.

Unveiled

You have no concept of fairness, apart from your desire to have your own way. I suggest you put that notion from your head, because despite what you believe, the realms will not cater to your whims, and neither will I.

Uprising

I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.

The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.

Voyage to the End of the Room

We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

The World According to Bertie

The desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting both!

Wise Childbearing: What You'll Want to Know as You Make Your Birth Choices

All that pent up longing,” he says, “all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.

Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

The World As I See It

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

Why live for tomorrow, when you’re not even through living today! Focus on what you can accomplish now and create the tomorrow's you desire today….

The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

As you search for a person, place, or thing, be prepared to continue your quest, should the end result not yield your desired outcome. Enjoy the process and you’ll avoid disappointment…!

The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officially, you owe each other nothing.

We Learn Nothing

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

White Oleander

You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the court world by asking to be sent to the front, instead of begging for a post in attendance on the Tsar's person.

War and Peace

It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love,

Watchers

I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together—the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice